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10 Dec 2016 2:28:39pm

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Did you know Joana that Buddhists don't actually use the word reincarnation to describe the flow of consciousness. Re-birth is the word they use and the two terms differ in a subtle but profound way.

Reincarnation suggests that a person's soul transmigrates from life to life where as re-birth discounts a soul that keeps coming back into existence. As there was no unchanging entity to begin with, other than a descriptive concept for the purpose of convention, no 'thing' reincarnates but re-birth does occur.

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